Key: (M)onday (T)uesday (W)ednesday Thu(R)sday (F)riday (S)aturday S(U)nday Also note: order of log is reverse chronological order, newest first.

Note: The above snippet is stolen from my advisor’s 2nd year PhD progress log 🤣

December

12-20 T:

• Sprint 1: Detail the design for baselines.
• Sprint 1: Detail the design for Implementation 1 and Implementation 2.

12-19 M:

• Study what model can take a set of premise as input.
  • The answer is no. We have to customize.

12-16 F:

• Presentation at group meeting.

12-15 R:

• Slides.

12-14 W:

• Problem formalization like FST.

12-12 M:

• Study how other language games work. (Daily games / Philosophical games)
• Read the paper Xiachong recommended to me.
• Corpus study:
  • I find multi-hop reasoning is NOT that desired.
  • I also find QGen in my existing work needs a lot of improvement.
• Think about abductive reasoning.

12-11 S:

• Receive meta-review.
  • The opinion/score is not too bad, but we still have doubts that haven’t been clarified. 😞

12-09 F:

• Still thinking about Smarter.
• ⭐️ Tried ChatGPT on my task.
  • Pretty impressive! Plenty of useful evidence can be extracted to facilitate its reasoning.
  • Weakness is logic (e.g. negation). Still cannot make correct prediction when I inform its “belief” on a fact (by negating it).
    • Yuxi said NN is still trained on a statistical manner. Not logic. I said Honghua Zhang’s paper about the paradox explained it.
  • Some ideas in our next work is endorsed. By trying and interacting …
  • I think ChatGPT provides a new interface to interact with the model, by updating its belief/opinion with natural language.

12-08 R:

• Think about Smarter. Write down a few hypotheses to be testes.

12-05~12-07 M~W:

• Family time

12-03 U:

• Read Finale Doshi-Velez’s papers as Level 2-3 reading. Min said she is going to teach CS6216 next Sem.

12-02 F:

• Group meeting.

November

11.30:

• Read papers. EMNLP ‘22 paper recommended by Min. Flan-T5 paper recommended by Xiachong.

11.21 - 11.29:

In the past 1 week

• Quarentine @ Hotel.
• Quatentine @ Home.
• Drafted the rebuttal together with Min.
• Upload my GAP hours claim.

11-16~11-19 W~S:

Flight, arrival and start of quarentine.

11-15 T:

CS5228 A3.

11-14 M:

Return the books to the library.

11-11 F:

• PCR 🧪
• Thinking about language game.

11-10 R:

<Take a rest>

• Help Saurabh edit his SOP.
• CS5228 TA slides for assignments 2.

11-09 W:

• Prepare for the research meeting w/ Min.

• Meet Min. Advice received: we have missed level 0 reading about Emoji. I cannot decide it is a dataset/model/linguistic theory paper before I know the knowledge. It is better to have a depth first search than breadth first search in a conference paper. Reviewers need to decide which type of the paper it is before accept it.

  Besides, Min also thinks information gain is a good idea.

11-08 T:

• Corpus study for ELCo.
• Busy figuring out my PCR tests 🧪.

11-07 M:

<ELCo> and <Smarter>

• Still try to formalize ELCo.
• Talk about the <Smarter> project with Hongfu.

11-06 U:

<ELCo>

• Meet Zi Yun, get her dataset.
• I think harder about the problem formalization. Read Vered’s and Chris’ paper and find they both perform classifications.
• I realized in our existing setting, the assumptions for ranking and classification are equivalent.

11-04 F:

<Group meeting>

• With a nice coincidence, I introduced Zixu to our group in the social session as he wanted to learn sequential modeling from us.
• <Didn’t do much on my own research>, need to push up tomorrow.

11-03 R:

• Continue reading Liangming’s references about information gain and try to make sense from them.
• Sit in Xiachong and Taha’s meeting and know what they are doing (and the state-of-the-art in their field).

11-02 W:

• Attend Yuxi’s meeting w/ Min.
• Talked w/ Liangming. He is interested in my next work. He offers two points: (1) My ongoing topic is very promising w.r.t. his view. (2) A max info gain perspective … leads to the next point👇
• Read the papers from Goodman’s group and William’s group but haven’t really understood.

11-01 T:

• Read papers (discourse / machine learning / Min’s 1998 verb paper)
• 2 hour research discussion with Jielin. She consulted me the training for a vision model for designers. I take analogy from different levels in NLP and advise her to try to stratify her problem.
• Basketball 500kCal.

October

10-31 M:

• Finish discussion period for AAAI-23 review.
• Update my webpage and initialize 2022 log starting today (many of them are offline, too lazy to move online).